Min Jin Lee Reads a Chapter From the Bible Every Day Before She Writes
The AMERICAN HAGWON author on many shitty drafts, pleasing the ancestors, and finding answers to her questions
The AMERICAN HAGWON author on many shitty drafts, pleasing the ancestors, and finding answers to her questions
Ekin Oklap discusses the intensity of adolescence, antidotes to loneliness, and how early experiences shape our lives
“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson
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SupportThese authors use fracture and disruption to capture the experience of trauma and enact it in the text itself
The NYT opinion columnist referred to the National Book Award longlists as “the literary world’s DEI checklist"
He's begun to fantasize that our son will wipe my in-laws off the planet
Enjoy absorbing fiction from Recommended Reading every Monday and strange, diverting work from The Commuter every Wednesday.
“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson
An excerpt from BASTARDS by Nate Lippens
“Zulum” from INSHALLAH, MADONNA, INSHALLAH by Miljenko Jergović, co-translated and recommended by Ellen Elias-Bursać